A fabulous, schmoozy time on Second Saturday in Mendocino last night, with a passle of gallery openings and people traipsing all over the place reveling in art, sipping wine and running into everybody they knew in the village. We love that about living up here: community trumps everything and you have to build in extra time for all the hugging on the sidewalks.
My Baby’s Love Letters, the new project I’ve been telling you about of these big, framed initials that are made up entirely of line after line of LoveLOVELove, took up the whole thirty-foot wall on the east side of the front door at the Highlight Gallery and I had a blast greeting visitors and telling them about the twenty-six Love Letters. It was a feat to get all those frames straight but Sharon Peterson and I did it together like the Two Stooges and they look dramatic and chic, as you can see. We sold some too!!!!
The Highlight Gallery is brimming over with gorgeous woodwork, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, photography, glass, pottery, weaving and more. A terrific showplace for local artists, and certainly an honor for me to have my installation there for this month. I hope you will stop in and get in on some of that love-emitting wall of Love, or go to their website to see a condensed version of all they have there. It’s amazing and gorgeous, and the view of Mendocino Bay from the front window is worth the trip from anywhere. I so enjoyed working with Sharon, Adrienne, Judy and Joanie in that peaceful, beauty-filled place.
My Baby’s Love Letters are wonderful gifts for so many occasions: birth days, birthdays, baby showers, christenings and brises, bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and newlyweds, anniversaries, client gifts, Xmas and Chanukah, girlfriend presents, or just a sweet way of telling somebody you are mad about him or her. You can learn more about My Baby’s Love Letters in previous blog posts and on the new website that we got up just in time for the exhibit!
Zida,
Thank you for making the article so beautiful!
I received four phone calls this morning and is not even 9am yet. the first from a business owner in Mendocino . She was so choked up she could barely speak. The article touched her deeply and she had been in tears.
This was closely followed by three more phone calls, from people I do not know, asking how they can help local children. I suggested the Mendocino Children’s Fund. A cash donation, change at the register at Harvest or a warm winter coat would make a huge difference for a cold child on the coast- it is impossible to learn or sleep when you are cold! I learned this when working at Public Health. You would be shocked how many kids sleep on a couch huddled under one blanket or a sleeping bag with their siblings. A great winter story would be Kate Hee from the outdoor store and her coat drive!
Maureen
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Thank you so much, Linda! That is exactly the reaction I dreamed of for My Baby’s Love Letters. That they are a little time capsule that people will have and will remember you by, remember where they were in a certain time. I’m so glad you LOVE My Baby’s Love Letters!
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The minute I laid eyes on My Baby’s Love Letters I said “yes. I want one for Bennie and Landon” (my almost 5 and almost 3 year old grandboys). I imagine us with a magnifying glass after “what a surprise here is your own letter” celebration presentation! We’ll be treasure hunting for gramma Linda’s love notes inside all the millions of B’s and L’s. And just as with other favorite things, we’ll be hunting again and again with each Gramma Linda visit. Having their Love Letters hanging on their bedroom wall now and living with them for years and years evolving with their ages. Zida is a fabulous tradition maker. A friend said “I can see them one day moving them to their offices” and remembering the first time they laid eyes on them.
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